## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01 June 2022 Period start date to 31 May 2023 Period end date**
## **Charity name We Remember Submariners.**
## **Charity registration number:1176446**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The main aim of We Remember**
**Submariners (WRS) is to gift a memorial**
**lapel pin, known as a “Moly” pin in**
**memory of the late Lt Cdr Ian Molyneux**
**GM RN. These will be gifted to close**
**relatives of the departed Submariner.**
**The pin, which cannot be purchased,**
**features a gold poppy in a wreath of red**
**poppies, representing the deceased**
**Submariner.**
**WRS also funds wreaths at Submarine**
**memorials and at the funerals of**
**deceased Submariners.**
**WRS will also provide financial support**
**to veteran or serving Submariners if**
**required.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The main activities of WRS are to:**
**Provide a wreath,” Moly” pins**
**and condolence card to the**
**immediate family of all notified**
**Submariners past or present that**
**sadly pass away.**
**Design and produce a unique**
**annual remembrance pin to sell.**
**Provide wreaths to submarine**
**related memorials.**
**Provide monetary donations to**
**suitable organisations and**
**individuals that meet our aims**
**and objectives.**
**Continue to promote WRS and**
**increase our membership.**
**Support this year has been given to**
**£1000 to wigan Council towards**
**bench for 100 yr old Submariner**
**£1000 to Plymouth Submarine**
**Association towards gambit**
**dinner costs**
**£2000 to serving Submariner for**|
|||**ongoing sponsorship for elite**
**sport Powerlifting**
**£2000 to Neptune field gun Crew**
**£1380 member for costs**
**purchasing wheelchair for retired**
**Submariner.**
**£1000 to trainee Submariners**
**towards cost for trip to national**
**submariner memorial London**
**£850 member for costs toward**
**buying adaptive bike for retired**
**Submariner.**|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The charity commission’s guidance on**
**public benefit has helped WRS achieve**
**its aims and objectives by:**
**Ensuring the charity trustees**
**focus on the charity objectives,**
**when planning activities.**
**Link with impact reporting and**
**demonstrating the charities**
**transparency and accountability.**
**Improve the overall quality of**
**reporting on the charities work.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||
SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The trustees will review all applications**
**for funding on a case-by-case basis.**
**Applications are approved on merit if**
**they meet the aims and objectives of the**
**charity. All donations are recorded and**
**used as PR material, but amounts are**
**never publicised.**
**A Majority decision is required for any**
**application to be approved.**
**The Chair has the authority to grant up**
**to £1500 without Trustee commitment.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The charity does not undertake social**
**investment.**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**WRS is entirely run by volunteers and**
**does not pay any wages. Legitimate**
**expenses are paid to individuals for**
**their mileage although some volunteers**
**do not claim.**
**We are very grateful for the many hours**
**that volunteers freely give, listening and**
**supporting families, submariners and**
**members of WRS in their time of need**
**and always signpost to the most**
**appropriate support agencies.**
**Without this valuable contribution of**
**time and effort WRS would not be able**
**to have achieved so much since our**|
|||**foundation.**|
|---|---|---|
|Other||**WRS is supported by a robust structure**
**of Trustees, a Management Team and a**
**network of Ambassadors and**
**supporters with the sole aim of**
**delivering the charity Aims and**
**Objectives**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During this period, we have gifted over**
**150 wreaths to the families together with**
**Moly pins and condolence cards.**
**£1000 to wigan Council towards**
**bench for 100 yr old Submariner**
**£1000 to Plymouth Submarine**
**Association towards gambit**
**dinner costs**
**£2000 to serving Submariner for**
**ongoing sponsorship for elite**
**sport Powerlifting**
**£2000 to Neptune field gun Crew**
**£1380 member for costs**
**purchasing wheelchair for retired**
**Submariner.**
**£1000 to trainee Submariners**
**towards cost for trip to national**
**submariner memorial London**
**£850 member for costs toward**
**buying adaptive bike for retired**
**Submariner.**
**Affiliation with the Royal Navy**
**Submarine Charity “ The Submarine**
**Family” which is underwritten by the**
**RNRMC. WRS are recognised as the**
**Submarine Service Remembrance**
**Subject Matter Experts.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**In the year 2022 7,500 annual**
**remembrance pins were ordered and**
**sold through membership, outstations,**
**and the on-line shop.**
**In the 2023 year we have ordered 7,500**
**annual remembrance pins and it is**
**anticipated all pins will be sold through**
**membership, shop, and outstations.**|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Because the reporting year covers two**
**years, we do not set specific fundraising**
**objectives other than the sale of an**
**annual pin and membership.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**We do not make investments.**|
|Other||**We organised our first annual ball in**
**Plymouth for the submarine community.**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity accounts are attached as a**
**separate document with a balance at the**
**end of the year of £134,826**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**WRS has agreed to ringfence a sum of**
**£30,000 in reserve to ensure WRS can**
**continue to achieve its aims and**
**objectives in the next year if forecasted**
**sales are not achieved**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None currently**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Principle sources of revenue were**
**derived from:**
**Membership of WRS**
**Sales of the annual remembrance**
**pin**
**The WRS on-line shop**
**Donations from Bereaved families**
**and submarine groups who**
**donate to our charity to assist in**
**our aims and objectives**
**Funds raised at the Annual Ball**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**We did not make any Financial**
**Investments in the year 22-23**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The charity recognises that there is the**
**potential; for risks and have collated a**
**risk register to manage these and**
**mitigate against**|
|Other||**The membership scheme has grown**
**slowly and at the end of the year we had**
**over 1700 members**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**None**|
|---|---|---|
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Rules and constitution that is reviewed**
**yearly**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are appointed or re-appointed**
**annually at the charity AGM through an**
**open vote, the initial tenure is for 3**
**years**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**WRS constitution requires all new**
**trustees complete an induction**
**programme which is co-ordinated by the**
**trustee co-ordinator.**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Membership of WRS is open to anyone**
**who is aged 18 or over regardless of**
**location.**
**The charity has a management structure**
**in place, and this is reviewed**
**periodically to ensure the structure**
**meets the needs of the charity**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**We Remember Submariners has forged**
**positive working links with several other**
**submarine charities and organisations,**
**the head of the fighting arm supports**
**the charity and allows the serving**
**submariners to wear their annual**
**memorial pin on their uniforms at the**
**November remembrance parades**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|We Remember submariners|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|WRS|
|Registered charity number|1176446|
|Charity’s principal address|17 St andrews way
Church Aston
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 9JH|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mick Dewhirst|Chairman||AGM|
||Nigel Mellor|Treasurer||AGM|
||Nick Miller|PR and Media||AGM|
||RockyMcGovern|IT and data||AGM|
||Rob Richards|Membership||AGM,|
||Paul Foran|Sales and marketing||AGM|
||Graham Bishop|Crossing The Bar
(CTB)||AGM|
||Peter Fisher|Asst Treasurer||AGM|
||Gill Molyneux|Patron, Trustee Co-
ordinator||Life post|
||John Bradbury|Founder, Historian||Lifepost|
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**Independent**
**financial**
**examiner**|James Wood|8 Willow Terrace
Sowerby Bridge
HX66 2JN|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**Not applicable**
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** N W H Miller
**Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 27 Mar 2024
||**We Remember Submariners**
**Charity Name**|**We Remember Submariners**
**Charity Name**|**We Remember Submariners**
**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|01/06/2022
Period start date|**To**||31/05/2023
Period end date|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**54,191**
**12,500**
**10,680**
**21,323**
**100**
**98,794**
**-**
**-**
**98,794**
**500**
**1,773**
**21,184**
**157**
**4,898**
**13,569**
**15,691**
**990**
**3,554**
**1,097**
**36**
**7,286**
**70,735**
**3,423**
**3,425**
**6,848**
**77,583**
**21,211**
**-**
**113,615**
**134,826**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**54,191**
**12,500**
**10,680**
**21,323**
**100**
**98,794**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**98,794**
**500**
**1,773**
**21,184**
**157**
**4,898**
**13,569**
**15,691**
**990**
**3,554**
**1,097**
**36**
**7,286**
**70,735**
**3,423**
**3,425**
**6,848**
**77,583**
**21,211**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Sales|**54,191**||||||**39,398**|
|Grant|**12,500**|||||||
|Membership|**10,680**||||||**13,340**|
|Donations|**21,323**||||||**43,936**|
|Bank Refund|**100**|||||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**98,794**||||||**96,674**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
|||||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**96,674**|
|||||||||
|AccountancyFees|**500**||||||**600**|
|Bank Charges|**1,773**||||||**2,025**|
|Donations|**21,184**||||||**54,364**|
|Insurance|**157**||||||**157**|
|Office/General administrative expenses|**4,898**||||||**6,380**|
|Purchases|**13,569**||||||**14,691**|
|Sponsorship|**15,691**||||||**11,944**|
|Subscriptions|**990**||||||**795**|
|Advertising|**3,554**|||||||
|Commission|**1,097**|||||||
|Legal and Professional fees|**36**|||||||
|Travel and Accomodation|**7,286**||||||**4,074**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**70,735**||||||**95,030**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
|Computer|**3,423**|||||||
|Computer|**3,425**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**6,848**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**95,030**|
|||||||||
||**21,211**|**-**|**-**||**21,211**||**1,644**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**113,615**|**-**|**-**||**113,615**||**111,971**|
||**134,826**|**-**|**-**||**134,826**||**113,615**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
We Remember CIO
WRS Operations
TFS Holding Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**131,756**
**-**
**240**
**-**
**2,830**
**-**
**134,826**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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approval|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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# **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Report to the** Charity Name We Remember Submariners **trustees/directors/ members of On accounts for the year** 31 May 2023 **ended**
**Charity no.:** Company no.: 1176446
**Set out on pages**
1 and 2
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Charity for the year ended **31/05/2023** .
**Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
section 145 of the Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Charity are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **Independent** come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that: **examiner's statement** Companies Act 2006; or
SORP (FRS102).
I confirm that there are no other matters to which your attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Signed: Date: 25/03/2024
Name: James Wood
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**October 2018**
**IER**
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
Member of Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) AAT Level 2 foundation certificate in Accounting AAT Level 3 advanced diploma in Accounting AAT Level 4 professional diploma in Accounting
**Address:** 8 Willow Terrace Sowerby Bridge HX6 2JN
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**October 2018**
**IER**